Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. faced questions on Tuesday about whether he plans to abandon the legal defense of any other federal laws, after the administration’s decision last week not to stand up for the core of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Holder testified before a House appropriations subcommittee primarily about the Justice Department’s budget for the next fiscal year, but the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. Frank Wolf R-Va., used the chance to push Holder about the consequences of last week’s decision.
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